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Some have said they were told that they were instructed they were acting as a backup in case https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/03/rudy-giuliani-michigan-fake-electors-text Q1: Poo to that for clarity then. Discuss. 10 marks. Q2: And are "some" the same people as "they"...

That will be end of round five, eleven to go and you're still standing.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/invictus

We all remember the dodgy dossier? Here's a new instalment: PM, this afternoon, Evan Davies interviewing the unhinged John Bolton, sometime National Security Adviser. Bolton (my transcription from the broadcast): "What would you expect the US to do if 300 ballistic missiles were aimed at London...

Badenoch complains about about too many immigrants 'who hate Israel' coming to UK In an article for the Sunday Telegraph today Badenoch complains that too many immigrants don’t like Israel. She says: We cannot be naïve and assume immigrants will automatically abandon ancestral ethnic hostilities at...

Flirtation is not high on my list of attainments. Nor conversation, really. I shall, if I may, blame my incomprehensible schooling.

I also note that new threads now appear on the recent-first thread list as started by "Guest". This is unexpected and unexplained, I have no idea why. I'm labelling it a quirk until I have time to look for a reason, which might be months off. All the posts within the thread are correctly a...

Damn right too. Banks, 33, said she was convinced her visit to the market, in the city’s Bull Ring, led to her becoming ill, resulting in two days “sweating that shit out”. She wrote: “Sidebar. The city officials in Birmingham, UK, need to do something about the fish market at the Bull Ring market. ...

It must be said, President Trump ha a tendency to say whatever will generate a headline regardless of sounding honest. Or reasonable. Your Vance chappie was cast in a similar mold. And once he’s said it, it must be true. He can’t back down even when proven wrong. Don't knock the idea, it's worked f...

Well, since I've retired, I wear this to my office...which happens to be the nearby lake. And it's still beautiful here in New Mexico... I'm amazed you can keep hold of a phone out there! It's in a floatable, sealed lake holder. Cool, huh? And it streams to my powerful lakeshore speaker. The bag at...

Saint_ wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:20 pm Right here, dude! I retired. Here's a look at my 30 year career....

The skateboarding is definitely the skill to keep practising. I can't do that.

President Trump's commitment would be honored if he wins his second term? 1. trump has to commitment to anything...even from minute to minute. 2. trump has no honor, nor any conception of it. 3. If he wins a second term...you should stock up on canned goods and bottled water. It must be said, Presi...

Whoa...2004. Was it really that long ago? I remember the original crew. There was never a shortage of drama. I wonder what ever happened to some of them like Rob Farrider? We put a call out for him a while back but there's no sign yet. But a terrible number are dead, if we carved them on a stone it...

Saint_ wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:11 pm Here my latest artwork: Cats in Love 2

That's extreme talent, you could be designing film sets. I'd not know where to begin and I don't have a cat to model for me either.

Saint_ wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:56 am Well, since I've retired, I wear this to my office...which happens to be the nearby lake. And it's still beautiful here in New Mexico...

I'm amazed you can keep hold of a phone out there!

I note the anniversary. It's now twenty years since the site opened for registrations, plus a few weeks. Much water has been passed under the bridge since then. None who were here then remain (though I did notice Paul flit though a few months back). We thank all whose posts mark their interactions, ...

"Parole reviews are undertaken thoroughly and with extreme care. Protecting the public is our number one priority," the spokesperson added. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgxqkqxl54do Now that's a really strange thing to assert: "Protecting the public is our number one priority&qu...

Staff at a rock n roll themed cafe were left shaking all over yesterday (September 10) after Spiderman Tom Hollander and film star girlfriend Zendaya popped in for a sausage sandwich and pancakes. https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/24578529.cafe-cornwall-spiderman-tom-holland-zendaya-popped/ I d...

The Antarctic region underwent an abrupt transformation in 2023 as the sea ice cover surrounding the continent crashed for six months straight. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/two-incredible-extreme-events-antarctic-sea-ice-on-cusp-of-record-winter-low-for-second-year-running ...

The Antarctic region underwent an abrupt transformation in 2023 as the sea ice cover surrounding the continent crashed for six months straight. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/two-incredible-extreme-events-antarctic-sea-ice-on-cusp-of-record-winter-low-for-second-year-running ...

All these years, it turns out, I'd got the cause and effect the wrong way round about that. After I wrote it I was puzzled. The song was clearly mid sixties while the Weather Underground was the definitive extreme movement of the end of the sixties. Sure enough: The Weather Underground, the radicals...

Arrrggghhhhhh brain ache. What have I done?? :o :shock: :? Look out kid Don’t matter what you did Walk on your tiptoes Don’t try No-Doz Better stay away from those That carry around a fire hose Keep a clean nose Watch the plain clothes You don’t need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows no...

Out of interest, does anyone actually believe President Trump's commitment would be honoured if he wins his second term? "Under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment," Trump said in an interview with NBC News. "Or we're going to be mandating that the i...

'Stolen' war medals found during litter pick [...] Co-founder El Clarke said the items were handed to police after discovering they matched those that went missing after a burglary in 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd730j7j43vo What on earth are the quote marks around 'Stolen' intended to ...

The rogue bot stopped accessing the site at 8am today. Until then they'd continued trying to hammer the site from a thousand or so IP addresses, but all their requests were rejected. So was Alexa's bot which got caught up in the rejection list. I've removed some of the constraints for today to see w...

That's more like it: Screenshot_2024-08-30_10-46-35.png For anyone watching who needs to fend off this particular bunch of antisocial data thieves, here's my blanket suppression of their current spider hosts. I'm aware my ranges are too broad but I was annoyed when I specified them. <Directory /var/...

It's been back for 12 hours now and the fix appears to be holding:

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There we are, I got six hours sleep after sorting that - the graph indicates a successful bodyslam of a minor DoS in the tradition of that old-time operator Mick McManus. Screenshot_2024-08-29_13-21-28.png What you're looking for as confirmation is /var/log/apache2/error.log showing authz_core:error...

Forumgarden has seen higher than usual web page access from illegitimate bots over the last 20 hours. For the time being I've put a stop to it. I can't tell whether it will develop into a DDoS attack - I've no reason to think we've done anything to warrant one. It had us repeatedly peaking at over 2...

We have another such cladding fire. A major incident has been declared by the London Fire Brigade after a fire engulfed a building in east London Two people have been taken to hospital and more than 100 residents evacuated The whole of the building has been affected by the fire, a LFB official says,...

Slow rumblings from the underground... Pol Lt Gen Piya Tawichai, spokesman for the PPRP, denied rumours Gen Prawit was considering stepping down as party leader. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2852672/pprp-names-same-4-mps-for-cabinet-posts I've already seen "an event with athlete...

Thailand’s parliament has said it will investigate a senior politician and former army chief after he was filmed slapping a reporter as she tried to ask him questions. Prawit Wongsuwon lashed out at a journalist from the public broadcaster ThaiPBS on Friday as she asked him about the appointment of...

On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, the United States government filed a motion in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida to revoke the pretrial release order granted to Jordan Guy MacDonald Goudreau by a magistrate judge in New York on July 30, 2024. Goudreau, a 48-year-old ...

“Civilised debate is vital to democracy, and it is the best of America,” Winfrey said. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/22/oprah-winfrey-democratic-national-convention-speech-trump-harris-vance Good lord, what planet does Oprah live on. I wonder whether I could buy a shirt sayin...

Tension appears to have driven "veteran politician and former army chief Prawit Wongsuwon", 79, to slap a reporter for having the impertinence to ask him how matters now stood in voting for a new prime minister. Or, in his own words later, he “was teasing her as someone who he is close to”...

A man was stung 160 times by wasps after the insects were disturbed and invaded his home. Andrew Powell, 57, said he hasn't been able to sleep due to the pain since the attack on Sunday which left him needing hospital treatment. The festival organiser from Brecon said the sky "turned brown&quo...

Comi23 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 2:25 pm I like the phrase: "You will, I hope, take that as a compliment if you're human."

And so, I hope, you did.

Comi23 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 2:20 pm Good catch, spot! It's not just illiterate editors, but also innumerate ones. I mean, who doesn't double-check their math before publishing an article? Thanks for pointing out the inconsistency.

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Comi23 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 2:23 pm Looks like Jordan Goudreau's back in hot water again! This time, he's facing 14 counts, including violating US arms control laws and conspiracy.

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Not merely illiterate news website editors then - innumerate too. For people like Mr Sa’adu, any type of housing in Lagos is unaffordable - renting a shack in an informal settlement costs around 100,000 naira ($48; £62) a year, while in a working-class area, a small apartment costs around 350,000 na...

Watch supplies get delivered to astronauts stranded in space

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c9v8gpddnmxo

Does the ISS not have a clock??

Sorry for reviving this thread. Anyone else thinks that black and white is boring? Black-and-white in terms of clothing is consistently an aspect of right-wing authoritarian settings. No liberal humanitarian would adopt that visual vocabulary. Purity and clarity, psychological impact, propaganda an...

I completely agree! It's like the art of being a "pantomime villain" has been lost in modern politics. I mean, who can forget the likes of Cecil Parkinson and Jeffrey Archer, who brought a certain level of drama and intrigue to the political scene? And you're right, Iain Duncan Smith's st...

Three of the last four years have seen some of Afghanistan's highest levels of opium production, according to the UNODC. Even as the COVID-19 pandemic raged, poppy cultivation soared 37% last year, it reported in May. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/profits-poppy-afghanistans-illegal-dru...

The Russian Coms platform allowed fraudsters to pretend to be callers from a bank or telecoms firm in order to steal money or personal details, the NCA said. The body said that between 2021 and 2024, over 1.3 million calls were made by Russian Coms users to 500,000 unique UK phone numbers. About 17...

The tree in Northumberland was famous as a wonderful, photographable sight https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/01/felled-sycamore-gap-tree-stump-green-shoots-stump Eww, BBC. No, please don't. (And yes, "eww" is valid: OED colloquial (originally North American). 1967– Used...

I say. Guess who's back in the limelight. A federal indictment unsealed this week in Tampa, Florida, accuses Jordan Goudreau and a Venezuelan partner, Yacsy Álvarez, of violating US arms control laws when they allegedly assembled and sent to Colombia AR-styled weapons, ammo, night vision goggles and...

Well. I'm not one to go on about stuff but, if indeed Kamala Harris can take the Presidency in November, this thread is back in business. President Trump will be 82 in 2028, and still entitled to run as the official Republican Party nominee in that year's Presidential election bidding for a second t...

US model Bella Hadid at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on 23 May 2024. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/jul/30/bella-hadid-adidas-ad-israel-munich-olympics-1972 "the 77th edition of the Cannes F...

US model Bella Hadid at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on 23 May 2024. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/jul/30/bella-hadid-adidas-ad-israel-munich-olympics-1972 "the 77th edition of the Cannes F...

It's not apparent to me how much political experience her four years as Vice-President has brought her. Perhaps I reed the rong papers. Given a say - which of course I haven't - I think she'd make a far better President than President Trump would. I too would like to find out. I'm not sure how to sh...

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